By Military Connection Staff Writer Joe Silva. Currently, there are tens of thousands of Veterans reporting for duty at college campuses. With the simultaneous phasing down of two campaigns, and the best Veteran education benefits that the country has ever seen, approximately a million more Veterans are expected to be enrolling in college and university […]
By Debbie Gregory. The unemployment rate for Post-9/11 Veterans in September, 2012 was 11.7%, and was lowered to 9.1% as of September, 2013. Veteran jobs and Veteran hiring programs are responsible for lowering that percentage. Over the last few years, most large corporations that do business in the U.S. have implemented various versions of programs […]
By Debbie Gregory. Army Captain Matt Zeller was the kind of soldier who would never leave a fellow soldier behind, especially one that had saved his life. In 2008, Zeller served for eight months as an embedded combat adviser with the Afghan security forces in Ghazni, Afghanistan. Capt. Zeller had read that the Afghan code […]
By Debbie Gregory. The group known as the Consortium on the Health and Readiness of Servicewomen is comprised of more than 30 private and public researchers from the Naval Health Research Center in San Diego, as well as from academia, the government and private institutions. Their areas of expertise include epidemiology, neurocognitive psychology, nursing and family […]
By Debbie Gregory. Top Air Force lawyers are under fire after urging subordinates to rally against a Senate proposal that would overhaul the military’s sexual assault policies. The Air Force has its own criminal court system. An Air Force Judge Advocate General lawyer assigned to this system typically starts out as a prosecuting attorney to […]
By Debbie Gregory. In an effort to ensure that the Department of Veterans Affairs can continue to make disability compensation and pension payments to veterans, in the event of another government shutdown, new legislation was introduced by Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs Chairman Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Protecting Those Who Protected Us Act of 2013, S.1564, […]
By Debbie Gregory. Over 200 years ago, George Washington said, “The willingness with which our young people are likely to serve shall be directly proportional to how they perceive veterans were treated and appreciated by their nation.” His words still ring true today. Nationally, the number of veterans receiving unemployment benefits has more than doubled […]
By Debbie Gregory. An article written by Kevin Baron, executive editor of Defense One, stipulated that each troop in Afghanistan will nearly double in cost in the last year of the war, to $2.1 million. For the past five years the average troop cost roughly $1.3 million. Defense Department officials argue the added cost is […]
By Debbie Gregory. If you have never been to Arlington National Cemetery, now you can take a virtual walk through Arlington without ever leaving home. For a little background on Arlington National Cemetery, in May, 1861, a young Union Army officer rushed into the Custis-Lee mansion. “You must pack up all you value immediately and […]
By Debbie Gregory. One of the biggest incentives that American men & women have for voluntarily enlisting into the military during a time of war is the education benefit. Military and Veteran education benefits have made it possible for approximately one million Military, Veteran and dependent students to attend college over the past four years. […]
